Raid at Kearny Mesa pot dispensary

San Diego  Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant Tuesday at a Kearny Mesa medical-marijuana dispensary.

Marijuana and records were confiscated from Balboa Medical Center, DEA Special Agent Amy Roderick said. No arrests were made.

The raid at the facility on Balboa Avenue, near Convoy Street, was part of a crackdown on medical marijuana outlets announced in October by U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. Owners of the outlets and landlords where they operate were given 45 days to close the dispensaries or face prosecution and possible forfeiture of their property.

California law allows medical use of marijuana, but it remains an illegal narcotic under federal law.

Earlier this month, the DEA conducted raids at another Kearny Mesa outlet and at ones in the Rolando, North Park and Pacific Beach areas of San Diego.

The Patient Care Association of California, a nonprofit association of San Diego medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives, condemned the ongoing raids. The action “will deprive patients legal access to their medicine, forcing them back to the black market,” the association said Tuesday in a statement.